Harness-saddle.



PATENTED JULY 23, 1907.` M. LAUTERBAGH. HARNESS SADDLE.

APPLICIATION. FILED JUNHSO. 1906.

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MAX LAUTERBAOH, OF SEDALIA, MISSOURI.

HARNESS-SADDLE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 23, 1907.

Application filed June 30,1906. Serial No. 324,248.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX LAUTERBAQH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sedalia, in the county of Pettis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and `useful Harness-Saddle, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to improvements in harness saddles, and has for its object to improve and simplify the construction and increase the strength and durability of devices of this character.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature oi the invention is better understood, the invention consists in certain not el features of construction as hereafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to wit-hout departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure l 1s a perspective view of the main body or tree portion of the improved dey ice; Fig. 2 is a perspective view, inverted, of the saddlcl seat portion, detached; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the check rein hook, detached; Fig. 4 is a view ofthe clamp screw; Fig. 5 is a sectional view longitudinally of the central portion of the improved device; Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6 6 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a sectional detail illustrating a modification in the construction.

The improved device comprises a body or base l0 of metal, preferably of malleable iron or cast steel, said base being provided with inclined extended sides lll2, having apertures 13 14 to receive the terret supporting bolts. A socket l5 is formed in the upper face of the base l0 and said socket is provided with a recess 16 in its bottom, as shown more clearly in Fig. l.

The upper face of the base portion l0 is cut away at the opposite sides of the socket l5 to form shoulders 17-18, and the rear part of the base is extended into a loop 19 adapted to receive the back strap of the harness, not shown.

The saddle seat portion of the device is represented in Figs. 2, 3 and 5, and consists of the body 20 eX- tended rearwardly and laterally at 2l in the usual form and with a depending central portion or lug 22 relatively thick and a depending lug 23 relatively thin,- the thicker lug having a stud or pin 24 extending therefrom and the thinner lug having a threaded recess 25, the stud adapted to enter the recess 16 in the socket 15 and the threaded aperture being adapted to receive a clamp screw 26 operating through an aperture 27 in the base portion l0 of the tree Thel check rein hook is represented at 28, and is provided with a laterally extending base 29 corresponding to and adapted to be seated in the socket l5 of the base l0, said base being provided with an aperture 30 through which the stud 24 passes on its way to its seat in the recess 16.

The outer or side edges of the base portion 20 of the saddle seat are depressed slightly and overhang the base portion l0 of the tree, as represented at 31-32 in Fig. 6, to form dovetailed recesses between the lugs 22-23 and the portions l0 and 20 of the device, to assist in holding the parts together.

The leather skirts of the saddle portion of the harness are indicated in part at 33-34 and the sheet metal jockey plate at 35 and bearing over the skirts and also around the lug 22 and beneath the lug 23 and through which the clamp screw 26 operates. The jockey plate thus extends beneath the overhanging portions .3l-32, and the leather cover of the jockey plate, indicated at 36, also extends beneath the overhangs and is compressed thereby.

By this simple arrangement it is obvious that all the parts are firmly clamped together and held in position by the one single clamp bolt 26, and require no other securing means. l

The device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured, and applied to any of the various forms and sizes of harness manufactured.

When employed in connection with harness in which jockey7 plates are not employed, the member 36 bears directly upon the tree l0 as shown in Fig. 7.

Wha-t is claimed is:-

A harness saddle tree including a body portion having oppositely disposed inclined arms and provided with a transverse enlargement at the juncture of said arms and projecting vabove the upper surface of the body portion to form oppositely disposed shoulders, one end of said enlargement being extended laterally beyond the adjacent longitudinal edge of the body portion to form a terminal loop, the opposite end thereof being disposed flush with the adjacent edge of said body portion and provided with a rectangular recess opening through said edge, there being an aperture formed in the enlargement at said recess, a check rein hook seated in said recess and provided with an aperture adapted to register with the aperture in the Wall of the recess, a saddle seat engaging the base of the check rein hook and provided with a depending stud adapted to enter the apertures in the hook and wall of the recess, respectively, and a fastening device for clamping the saddle seat in position on the enlargement.

In testimony that l claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MAX LAUTERBACH.

Witnesses Lnn MONTGOMERY, Lnn MONTGOMERY, Jr. 

